Chi Yan had a dream. He dreamed that when he was an adult, Ye Yingzhi was sitting on a park bench, holding him on his lap, and talking to him by his ear. In the garden of the temple, there are large tracts of snow-white, light pink, and light purple double-petaled flowers. There are two tall sacred trees next to the benches. There are also clusters of snow-white flowers on the sacred trees. A gust of wind blows, Then there are scattered flowers falling on them and on the benches.
He could vaguely perceive that he was dreaming, but in the dream he couldn't help thinking of his lover, and softly called out the other person's name in his heart...
Then he heard his lover whisper in his ear: "Little idiot, you have been trapped by a monster. If you don't wake up, your teammates will die."
Chi Yan suddenly woke up from the dream.
That's right, he is still on the Horton Wasteland, among the abandoned ruins. He was on the road with his four teammates, how could he suddenly fall asleep
His body was drowsy, his eyelids were too heavy to open, as if he was caught in a nightmare, Chi Yan struggled to open his eyes, and couldn't help but stunned when he saw the current scene - they were in an underground stone hall in an abandoned fortress Among them, there were dilapidated walls on all sides, and all four of his teammates fell to the ground, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep, and they were all wrapped around a vine made of black gas, trapping them firmly. He looked down at himself, and sure enough, a black vine almost as thick as his upper body was wrapped around his waist, and after a circle, it snaked down, and was bound together with his calf.
Chi Yan could distinguish the demonic aura in it. This demonic energy was unusual and seemed to have the effect of confusing people. The reason why they fell into a deep sleep should also be related to this demonic energy.
He tilted his head to look at Kai Ruitan, who was closest to him. The always resolute earth magician frowned at this time, his face was hideous, and he seemed to have seen something extremely painful in his dream. Freida, Leiyun, and Xue Li were not close to Chi Yan, and there were abandoned stones in the middle. Chi Yan could not see their state, but it would not be much better.
He turned his head to look to the other side, the black air formed an ellipse, and the middle of the ellipse condensed into a mirror-like thing, but at this time the mirror was foggy, and nothing could be seen clearly.
Chi Yan remembered the voice he heard just now. Was Ye Yingzhi reminding himself that they had fallen into a trap
He remembered what Ye Yingzhi said at the altar that night, "I protect you, just because you are still too immature, too young, and not yet fully grown...".
The other party knew all this, but only gave him a reminder, and left the rest to him to do.
Ye Yingzhi was watching him grow slowly.
The black vines on his body seemed to sense something, and they became tighter and tighter; the expression of Kai Ruitan next to him became more and more painful; the three teammates in the distance did not respond.
The situation could no longer be delayed, and the only way Chi Yan could think of to rescue everyone was to quickly and completely eliminate the thing that trapped them.
He closed his eyes and concentrated on feeling the familiar and vast divine power. Although he said he was relying on himself, in the face of the immediate crisis, he still had to rely on Ye Yingzhi's strength.
The principle of this is the same as that of the gods. The gods have the breath and blessing of the gods, and they can borrow the power of the gods. However, the breath of the gods they are contaminated with is limited, and the power they can mobilize is also extremely limited. Even so, ordinary people would not dare to offend those favored by the gods easily; and the evil spirit aura on Chi Yan's body was extremely strong.
Ye Yingzhi once said that "you are equivalent to my half-length existence", not just sweet words to coax people.
Chi Yan closed his eyes, and could feel the familiar power wrapping himself warmly, gradually pouring into his body, as if Ye Yingzhi was gently hugging him and gradually becoming one with him...
He slowly opened his eyes, his body was filled with the aura and divine pressure of the evil god, and his black eyes showed a bit of gloom, faintly golden.
The vine that was entangling him felt wrong and loosened a bit, as if he wanted to withdraw, but Chi Yan didn't give it the chance. He covered the black demonic vines with his left hand in the air, and slowly poured power into it - all the vines were fixed in place in an instant, but in an instant, it seemed that a long time had passed, only listening to the stone A mournful howl sounded in the hall, and the next second, the demonic vines started from the position under Chi Yan's palm, and the dominoes were continuously broken and shattered.
The cracked vines turned into black smoke, and gradually condensed into a human shape; the human shape was just condensed, and then it began to shatter and tear from the position of the heart, and finally completely turned into black smoke and fell to the ground, and was blown away by the wind.
After confirming that the crisis had been completely resolved, Chi Yan slowly let out a sigh of relief. He gently closed his eyes to let the power of the evil god in his body slowly dissipate. He stood up and walked towards his teammates, waking them up one by one. .
He vaguely took the dangerous situation just now, only saying that they were bewitched by a monster. He happened to get rid of the confusion and woke up in time, and he saw the way to deal with this monster, so he was able to repel the opponent. Freida worried over and over to confirm whether he was all right and whether he was injured in dealing with the monsters; Kai Ruitan thanked Chi Yan with his loud voice, and praised him for his resilience and quick response, and the big hand patted his shoulders; Leiyun reminded him They had to be more careful, urging their teammates to hurry up on the road; Xue Li didn't seem to have regained her senses yet.
After clearing this monster, they did not encounter any major threats and returned to the school to hand in the task.
The five said goodbye, but Leiyun did not leave, but went back to the dormitory with Chi Yan on an excuse to follow.
"Chi Yan, you have to be careful and think about how to deal with it." After the two walked out of a distance, Lei Yun suddenly said.
Chi Yan looked at his teammates with some confusion: "Be careful of what?"
"When you were in the underground ruins, I, Freida, and Shirley were all awake when you woke up. You could see everything that was happening outside, but you couldn't move. That's why we all saw it when you dealt with the demonic vines. You have the aura and pressure of the evil god on you. If I guessed correctly, you used the power of the evil god to solve the monster. And you have been hiding this ability of your own, which is for most people. Is a questionable, uncertain risk factor. Freida believes in who you are, and she wants to protect you, so she won't say it; I think it's more important than the power you use to save my life , so I won't say it. But Shirley is a favored person, she may be more concerned about this 'unstable factor', I think she has a high chance of telling Mr. Hodge. With Mr. Hodge's meticulous conduct, He's not going to sit idly by."
Mr. Hodge is Shirley's mentor for the practice of God's Blessed One.
"So Chi Yan, you'd better figure out how to deal with it in advance. Freida and I are willing to support you if you need it; you can try to talk to Mr. Tulong first, if the old Dean Tulong is willing to believe you, then Things might get better."
In fact, he woke up faster than Freida and Shirley with the Qibao bodyguard, so he also saw the flashing scene in the mirror that was condensed with magic energy - it was a building he had never seen before. The magnificent and majestic snow-white palace stands tall on the nine-layered jade steps, as if overlooking the gods of the world; before the palace, someone flashed by.
Leiyun had seen the records about this kind of resentment, knew its habits, and guessed that the monster was the first to target Chi Yan, so what flashed in the mirror should be the scene of Chi Yan's important people. He himself is actually the fifth prince of the Lanqin Empire. After the death of his mother, he hid his identity to study at the Business School in order to avoid the assassination. He has seen countless wealth and honors in the world since he was a child, but he can't remember where there is such a solemn and magnificent palace. Chi Yan's origin is a little curious. But he came here by hiding his identity and could understand Chi Yan's situation, so he would not deliberately inquire about the identity of the other party.
And while they were talking, Shirley really told Mr. Hodge about it. She also vaguely felt that it was not good to expose the secret of saving their teammates in this way, but she had been studying with Mr. Hodge, and had heard the rumors before, combined with the breath and pressure of Chi Yan at that time - she felt This matter still has to be told to Mr. Hodge to decide. If Chi Yan really stole the divine power from the Evil God statue, it would be terrible and must be stopped as soon as possible.
After Mr. Hodge heard about this from Shirley, he went to Tulong without stopping and reported the news to the old dean.
With an unsurprising expression on his face, Tulong looked slowly at Hodge, who was standing in front of his desk: "I know about this. I gave him a magic weapon that can temporarily borrow the power of the evil god to save his life."
In fact, of course he didn't know about it, but he wasn't surprised when he heard that Chi Yan was able to use the power of the evil god to a great extent.
"How is that possible?" Mr. Hodge murmured reluctantly, "According to Shirley's description, his ability to invoke divine power far exceeds the ability of ordinary divine favored persons, and divine favored persons who have served God for hundreds of years cannot borrow so much divine power. !"
Of course. Even for gods, the amount given to a partner and a believer will not be the same. The partner took the secondary card, and all the divine powers were swiped at will, and the believer took two or three coins that God occasionally tossed out—of course, the powers that can be dispatched by the two are quite different.
Tulong knew it very well in his heart, but he didn't know how to explain this to his stubborn vice president. In the end he could only sigh: "That's what it is. Hodge, I hope you can trust me again, and stop being hard on that young man."
"… Okay." Mr. Hodge finally nodded. Tullon was also his teacher and has given him many valuable guidance over the years. He trusts the character and conduct of the other party, as well as the judgment of the other party. Therefore, although he was still full of doubts, he reluctantly suppressed it.
But this is not the first time. He thought to himself that the young man had doubts that he could not explain, but the old dean insisted on keeping him.
"Also, Hodge, don't forget that you are going to attend the academic conference in TECO Continent from next week. I will arrange for Du Jin to teach for you temporarily." Du Jin is a second-year theological history teacher.
"Understood, I always remember." Mr. Hodge agreed and left. Although he had always disliked the bullshit dude in Dugin, there really wasn't any other theological history teacher in the academy who had time to take his class. And I have to admit, that bullshit guy's theological history class has always been more popular than his.
Well, much more popular.
He made a fortune by telling the erotic history of the Heretic God and his darling in class, a vulgar bastard who lowered the professionalism of the entire seminary. Mr. Hodge cursed bitterly in his heart.
Thinking of Du Jin in his mind, he gradually forgot about Chi Yan.